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Elections Transparency Act pulled from Senate schedule as other election bills pass

June 29, 2022 8:35 pm

A major overhaul of New Jersey’s campaign finance laws, dubbed the “Elections Transparency Act,” was pulled from today’s Senate voting schedule at the last minute following blowback from progressive groups and unions; the bill had never been posted for a...

Nine election bills advance out of Senate committee

June 23, 2022 6:06 pmJune 23, 2022 10:06 pm

Nine election bills advanced through the Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee today which would enact a variety of changes concerning mail-in balloting, poll workers, overseas voters, ballot privacy, early voting locations, campaign finance, and police at...

Zwicker says early voting still needs time to catch on

June 9, 2022 4:44 pm

Asked today about low turnout in Tuesday’s primary elections, particularly during the state’s three-day early in-person voting period, State Sen. Andrew Zwicker (D-South Brunswick) said that early voting still needs time to catch on among voters and shouldn’t be dismissed...

Dancer wants to bar municipalities from allowing noncitizen voting in local elections

June 3, 2022 10:01 am

Should noncitizens be able to vote in local elections? That’s an issue Congress has left up to local governments themselves, and a small number of municipalities around the country – most notably New York City and San Francisco – have...

N.J. added 13k new voters in May

June 1, 2022 11:01 amJune 2, 2022 12:06 am

New Jersey added 12,695 voters to its registration rolls in May, with the statewide total increasing from 6,432,702 to 6,445,397. As has been the case for many months in a row, the vast majority of that growth came from unaffiliated...

Ten election bills cleared an Assembly committee. What do they do?

May 13, 2022 5:51 pmMay 16, 2022 12:41 am

A raft of ten bills concerning New Jersey’s elections, including seven spearheaded by Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin (D-Woodbridge), passed the Assembly State and Local Government Committee yesterday. If ultimately signed into law, the bills could make important changes to how...

N.J. unaffiliateds continued registration rise in April

May 3, 2022 2:30 pm

New Jersey’s voter rolls gained 10,566 new voters in April, rising from 6,422,136 voters to 6,432,702, with most of those gains driven by voters unaffiliated with any political party. The number of unaffiliated voters rose by 9,065 over the course...